Seminar on Mixed Hodge Structures (Fall 2021)
The topic (for now) is mixed Hodge structures, following Deligne's original papers [D2] and [D3]. I'm down to do other related things too, if anybody wants to.
- When: Thursday 6:30 - 8:00 PM ET (there will be food)
- Where: Mathematics Building, Room 528
- Organizers: Kevin Chang
- References:
- [D2] Deligne - Théorie de Hodge, II, the paper
- [D3] Deligne - Théorie de Hodge, III, the paper
- [Co] Conrad - Cohomological Descent, useful notes for [D3]
- [PS] Peters, Steenbrink - Mixed Hodge Structures, SpringerLink
- [Ci] Cirici - Weight filtration: some examples, some notes with computed examples
- [P] Peters - Tata Lectures on Motivic Aspects of Hodge Theory, has some nice stuff
- Prereqs: Hodge theory for smooth projective varieties
Schedule
- 10/28
- Kevin Chang
- Intro to mixed Hodge structures; Hodge theory for smooth varieties
- I will start by reviewing Hodge theory for smooth projective varieties and the relevant homological algebra. Following [D2], I will introduce mixed Hodge structures. I will finish by presenting the first part of the proof of the existence of mixed Hodge structures on arbitrary smooth varieties.
- notes
- 11/04
- Kevin Chang
- Hodge theory for smooth varieties II
- I will construct mixed Hodge structures for smooth varieties. I will then provide some applications and examples.
- notes
- 11/11
- Caleb Ji
- Cohomological descent
- Cohomological descent uses the simplicial theory of hypercoverings to formulate a derived category version of descent. In this talk, I will begin by introducing the preliminary notions of coskeleta and hypercoverings, which form a generalization of Cech theory. Using de Jong's alterations, one can construct a proper and regular hypercovering of singular varieties. Then I will define cohomological descent and describe some of its properties and applications. Finally I will state and explain the main theorem due to Deligne that says that proper hypercoverings are universally of cohomological descent, which is an important input used in his Hodge III paper.
- notes
- 11/18
- Kevin Chang
- Applications and examples of mixed Hodge structures; Hodge theory for all varieties
- In the first part of this talk, I will give some applications and examples of mixed Hodge structures on smooth varieties. In the second part of this talk, I will introduce the formalism of mixed Hodge complexes, which give a systematic way of producing mixed Hodge structures. I will then explain how to get a mixed Hodge complex from a simplicial resolution of an arbitrary variety.
- notes the Grothendieck fact about the image of the cohomology of a smooth compactification
- 12/02
- Kevin Chang
- Hodge theory for all varieties II
- I will finish the proof of the existence of mixed Hodge structures on all varieties, modulo some homological algebra.
- notes
- 12/09
- Caleb Ji
- The Ax-Schanuel conjecture for period maps
- I will begin by reviewing the Lefschetz decomposition and polarized Hodge structures. Then I will discuss period domains and period maps and state the Ax-Schanuel conjecture for them, which was proven by Bakker and Tsimerman. This is a functional transcendence theorem whose proof uses o-minimality.